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Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on … carbon from the atmosphere and keeps it in the deep ocean. With genomic samples collected before, during and after The … organic matter scavengers. This preliminary model aligns with several other studies on the potential effects of …
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Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the … been published in Nature by an international consortium. With the genetic code of sugarcane, researchers were able to …
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… their 2019 list of Highly Cited Researchers , which includes 10 affiliated with the JGI . The 2019 list focused on Highly Cited Papers, … over the last year: Kerrie Barry and Jeremy Schmutz worked with a community of switchgrass researchers to conduct a …
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Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a single gene makes messenger RNA, which encodes a single protein. Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held …
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Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? … (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have both the machinery to make … University describe a two-pronged approach that starts with engineered yeast cells but then moves out of the cell …
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Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes … two polysaccharides can yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees … down hemicellulose. The authors think this might have to do with the differences in lifestyle: honey bees need ample …
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In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth … 22, and DNA Day on April 25. On March 17, 2020, a shelter-in-place order for all residents took effect in six San Francisco Bay Area counties. The JGI, located at …
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In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth … how microbes might be influencing its health. He sat down with me to talk about his project, and riffed a bit on what … stressors, um, alter microbial biomass and then what the consequences are for the ecosystem. ALISON: So, Ed is trying …
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In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth … at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I recently caught up with Karolina at the Plant and Animal Genomes, or PAG … She talked about her Community Science Project proposal with JGI, in which she’s studying a special kind of plant …
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… last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. … home office (garage). There, standing at a safe distance, with proper face covering, was JGI’s Administrative Services … luminaries included from the Berkeley Lab Directorate, Mike Witherell (Director), Michael Brandt (Operations Deputy), …
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Program presents… Eyes on the Prize – Launching & Sustaining Startups in Synthetic Biology Who’s Invited? All … Creek Featuring a casual, candid, C-level panel discussion with local industry leaders: Arvind Gupta , Managing …
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… development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria … postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus Carnevali was working with a group of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) dubbed … MAGs later dubbed Saganbacteria. At the same time, working with researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean …
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